After discussing the meaning of the word politics, this paper shows that there are four possible approaches to the issue of the relationships between language, discourse and politics: a) the intrinsic political nature of ...

This article distinguishes between language policy and linguistic policies. The first one is also named the politics of language, which interprets the essentials of language diversity as a problem, as rights or as ...

This article presents, in its fundamental aspect, the theory of language of American pragmatist Richard Rorty, its construction from the reception and interpretation of Donald Davidson's linguistic philosophy and his ...

This work investigates the functioning of the politician in saying “in” and “about the” languages in newspapers from the platinum border, with a view to a politics of languages of media in Mercosul. For this, we took as ...

Despite the emphasis on change, both synchronic and diachronic, that Sociolinguistics has, language standardization is a process that starkly reveals the social and cultural dynamics and struggles of language use, such as ...